Language, personal resonance, and ethics in Charles Taylor
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https://doi.org/10.48075/aoristo.v9i1.37509Keywords:
Poetics, Rhetorics, Articulation, EthicsAbstract
Charles Taylor is one of the most prominent hermeneutic thinkers of recent years. Among his central
concerns are the overcoming of naturalism, proceduralism, and ethical externalism. His analyses
combine, in a manner as laborious as it is protean, both historical and analytical dimensions. In this
paper, I offer a reflection on some of the key themes from one of his major works: Sources of the Self
(1989). I touch on central concepts such as strong evaluation, ad hominem argument, articulation,
and the importance of poetic/rhetoric language, in the ethics field. The thesis I aim to develop—
especially in the final and longest section—is that only the rhetoric/poetic mode of discourse is
capable of releasing the moral and spiritual force of constitutive goods. Without this release—
without that convergence of energy and hermeneutics—moral goods are destined to wither, become
alienated, and ultimately vanish.
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